OpenAI

North America Vendor Lead, Ads

OpenAI • $120K — $145K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in vendor operations, commercial operations, or outsourced sales
  • Experience in Ads, performance marketing, or SMB sales
  • Knowledge of sales funnels, forecasting, and advertiser retention
  • Proven track record in improving operating processes and quality programs
  • Strong analytical and communication skills for data-driven decision making
  • Interest in leveraging AI and automation for operational efficiency

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale BPO operating models and governance structures
  • Drive results in revenue, advertiser acquisition, and seller productivity
  • Lead business reviews and governance forums with partners
  • Develop scorecards and escalation processes to identify risks
  • Enhance sales quality through playbooks and performance analysis
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on new products and markets
  • Create workforce plans aligned with business growth forecasts

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape and scale a critical business function
  • Cross-functional collaboration with diverse teams
  • Engagement with external partners and leadership
  • Focus on innovation through AI and automation
  • Impact on commercial outcomes and advertiser success
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are hiring a BPO Lead to build and scale the outsourced operating model that supports our Ads business in North America and globally.

This is a builder role. You will design the governance, performance systems, capacity plans, quality programs, and accountability mechanisms that enable our BPO partners to deliver exceptional commercial outcomes. You will work across internal teams and external partner leadership to improve seller productivity, advertiser growth, forecasting accuracy, and operational quality.

This is a highly cross-functional individual contributor role that sits at the intersection of Ads Sales, SMB, Revenue Operations, Finance, Enablement, Product, Program Management, and external BPO leadership. You will help define how OpenAI operates with external partners and build the systems, processes, and accountability mechanisms that enable the business to scale.

In this role, you will:

Build and scale BPO operating models, governance structures, and performance frameworks for Ads
  • Drive results across revenue, pipeline, advertiser acquisition, activation, retention, seller productivity, and quality
  • Lead business reviews and executive governance forums with BPO partners and internal stakeholders
  • Develop scorecards, forecasts, inspection mechanisms, and escalation processes that surface risks early
  • Improve sales quality through playbooks, QA frameworks, coaching programs, and performance analysis
  • Partner with Sales, Revenue Operations, Product, Enablement, Finance, and Program teams on new products, markets, and sales motions
  • Create workforce and capacity plans aligned to business demand and growth forecasts
  • Determine which customer segments and sales motions should be handled by BPO partners versus internal teams
  • Use AI, automation, and scalable systems to improve execution, visibility, and seller productivity


You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • 5+ years of experience in vendor operations, commercial operations, outsourced sales, or a scaled revenue organization
  • Experience in Ads, advertiser growth, performance marketing, or a comparable SMB sales motion
  • Working knowledge of sales funnels, forecasting, advertiser activation, spend growth, retention, and churn
  • Experience improving operating processes, scorecards, quality programs, or capacity plans across vendors or markets
  • Strong analytical, operational, and communication skills, with the ability to turn data into clear actions and work effectively across teams
  • Interest in using AI and automation to improve execution, visibility, and seller productivity


About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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100 employees
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Founded
2015

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